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Under Bruner's proposal, about 15 per cent of Freshmen would have an opportunity at mid-year to enter special sections in one of their large introduction courses, to be directed by an "experienced" Faculty member. In the special section, or "workshop," as Bruner calls it, students would do both accelerated course work and independent research. After Freshman year, students would continue various workshops until graduation, taking only three regular courses. These later would be independent from courses, and would "prepare the student for his senior theses...
...implement his proposals, Bruner advocated enlarging the Faculty if necessary. He also felt that such a program, involving only 15 per cent of the students, might arouse enough enthusiasm on the part of other students to warrant eventually allowing a larger number to participate...
Since teaching fellows make up over 50 per cent of the Board of Freshman Advisers, the lack of Social Relations fellows has resulted in a poor representation of the field on the Board. Only one person from the Department is among the 117 advisers...
...subsidy--the equivalent of 435 million dollars by Peiping's recokning--indicates that many are in straitened circumstances. In addition, the 7 per cent agricultural tax of 1958 will be cut to 5.2 per cent...
...liberalized transfer policy would be a corner-stone of this proposed system. Last year, the College turned down 88.2 per cent of the transfer applicants from four-year colleges. This extremely high rejection percentage, moreover, is on the increase. Only two students transferred, as freshmen, into the class of '62, since members of the Admissions Committee feel that most students can obtain an adequate education at another college...